Table of Contents

1 Chapter Introduction 1

2 Chapter Simple Random Sampling 18

3 Chapter Sampling Proportions and Percentages 50

4 Chapter The Estimation of sample Size 72

5 Chapter Further Aspects of Stratified Sampling 115

6 Chapter Ratio Estimators 150

7 Chapter Regression Estimators 189

8 Chapter Systematic Sampling 205

9 Chapter Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Equal Sizes 233

9. A Chapter Single-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters of Unequal Sizes 249

10 Subsampling With Units of Equal Size 274

11 Chapter Subsampling  With Units of Unequal Sizes 292

12 Chapter Double sampling 327

13 Chapter Sources of Error in Surveys 359

References  400

Answers to Exercises 412

Author Index  419

Subject Index 422

About the Author

William G Cochran was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939, when he moved to the United States.